This post is mainly pictures because sometimes images speak louder than words, or whatever. No, actually, I’m just super busy and feeling horrible about how I have all these gorgeous photos of Death Valley sitting on my computer doing nothing. … (more...) [13 comments]
The first time I went to New Mexico, almost three years ago, I fell in love. With a boy. This boy, in fact. But I also fell in love with the place. As we drove away away from Albuquerque on … (more...) [22 comments]
Spent a few days in DC, doing city things…like happy hour and whiskey sours and chicken wings and snuggling with long lost friends and wandering the streets in sub-freezing temps. Because apparently the air mass that usually sits over Siberia … (more...) [1 comments]
I might be chasing summers this year, but I’ve spent three winters in Vermont so I know what cold feels like. And today is it. Zero on the thermometer with a purported -18 degree windchill, as if anyone knows what … (more...) [3 comments]
It’s gray here in Ohio. Forty degrees and gray. A cold front’s moving in, but for now there is still mud. Mud and ice. Thick, red, iron-rich Ohio clay and the last remnants of yesterday’s snow. The lake is frozen … (more...) [5 comments]
Some people complain that I am hard to keep track of. Hopefully this will help clear things up. Read this post and then we’ll be all caught up for 2013 and I can stop talking about myself (just kidding, I … (more...) [21 comments]
I’m only home for a week or so and the weather is putting on a show. It always does. This summer I was home for the hottest, humid-est, most utterly miserable days of the year. And now, here I am … (more...) [3 comments]
I’ve decided I need to see more sunrises. I think I can count the sunrises I’ve seen in the past year on one hand and most of these I saw unintentionally, on early morning drives to the airport or while … (more...) [5 comments]
The past week’s itinerary: Monterey, CA to Laguna, CA to Death Valley to Phoenix, AZ to Albuquerque, NM and now, finally, to Taos. Exhaustion, long hours in the car and a sinus infection. Life on the road. You can look … (more...) [2 comments]